Abstract: The invention relates to the field of membrane gas separation. A method of removing components of gas mixtures which is based on passing the components of a gas mixture through a nanoporous membrane and subsequently selectively absorbing them with a liquid absorbent that is in contact with the nanoporous membrane, wherein to prevent the gas from getting into the liquid phase of the absorbent and the liquid phase of the absorbent from getting into the gas phase, a nanoporous membrane with homogeneous porosity (size distribution less than 50%) and a pore diameter in the range of 5-500 nm is used, and the pressure differential between the gas phase and the liquid absorbent is kept below the membrane bubble point pressure. An acid gas removal performance of more than 0.3 nm3/(m2 hour) in terms of CO2 is achieved at a hollow-fiber membrane packing density of up to 3200 m2/m3, which corresponds to a specific volumetric performance of acid gas removal of up to 1000 nm3 (m3 hour).

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of membrane gas separation. A method of removing components of gas mixtures which is based on passing the components of a gas mixture through a nanoporous membrane and subsequently selectively absorbing them with a liquid absorbent that is in contact with the nanoporous membrane, wherein to prevent the gas from getting into the liquid phase of the absorbent and the liquid phase of the absorbent from getting into the gas phase, a nanoporous membrane with homogeneous porosity (size distribution less than 50%) and a pore diameter in the range of 5-500 nm is used, and the pressure differential between the gas phase and the liquid absorbent is kept below the membrane bubble point pressure. An acid gas removal performance of more than 0.3 nm3/(m2 hour) in terms of CO2 is achieved at a hollow-fiber membrane packing density of up to 3200 m2/m3, which corresponds to a specific volumetric performance of acid gas removal of up to 1000 nm3 (m3 hour).

Abstract: The invention relates to membrane gas separation, in particular to a method of fractionating mixtures of low molecular weight hydrocarbons based on the capillary condensation of the mixture components in the pores of microporous membranes having uniform porosity and a pore diameter of 5 to 250 nm, wherein, for capillary condensation, the temperature of the membrane and the pressure on the permeate side are kept below the temperature and the pressure of the feed mixture. The method provides significantly increasing membrane permeability with respect to condensable components, and also component separation factors, while also allowing to avoid deep cooling of the gas stream fed to a membrane module, and to carry out gas separation under insignificant cooling of the membrane on the permeate side (down to -50° C.). The invention provides for energy-efficient fractionation of hydrocarbon mixtures, including separation and drying of natural and associated petroleum gases.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of membrane gas separation and can be used for the energy-efficient fractionation of hydrocarbon mixtures, including separation and drying of natural and associated petroleum gases. Proposed is a method of fractionating mixtures of low molecular weight hydrocarbons which is based on the capillary condensation of the components of a mixture in the pores of microporous membranes with uniform porosity and a pore diameter in a range of 5 to 250 nm, wherein, for capillary condensation, the temperature of the membrane and the pressure on the permeate side are kept below the temperature and the pressure of the feed mixture such that the equilibrium pressure of the saturated vapors of the separated components on the permeate side is lower than the partial pressure of the components in the feed stream.